CV – Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller

Christina Hemauer
1993-1998 | Master’s in Visual Arts and Art Education Zurich University of the Arts
1996 | Study term at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent
Born 1973 in Zurich, Switzerland

Roman Keller
1997-1998 | Visiting student at Karlsruhe University of Applied Science and Arts, Professorship for Art Photography, Candida Höfer
1996-1998 | Training as a photographer, Gaf, Zurich; International Center of Photography (ICP), New York; School of Visual Art (SVA), New York
1989-1995 | Master of Science in Environmental Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Born 1969 in Liestal, Switzerland

Collaboration since 2003.

Awarded grants and fellowships
2023 | Landis & Gyr Foundation, artistic grant, London, United Kingdom
2019 | Collide Pro Helvetia, residency award at CERN, Switzerland
2018 | Art Fellowship of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
2014 | City of Zurich Art Grant, Switzerland
2013 | Scholarship by the City of Zurich, Switzerland
2012 | Dr. Georg and Josi Guggenheim Price, Zurich, Switzerland
2011 | Art Fellowship of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
2009 | Swiss Art Award
2008 | Grant for visual artists, UBS Art Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland
2008 | Swiss Art Award
2007 | Art Fellowship of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland

Solo exhibitions (selection)
2022 | Uossa o mai – Now or Never, Kunsthalle Nairs, Scuol, Switzerland
2022 | Concerning the Human-Made Sky, Nidwaldner Museum, Stans, Switzerland
2021 | Acoustic Sky Funnel Locator, Temporary Chapel Winterthur-Veltheim, Switzerland
2020 | La Partenza, Centre for the Performing Arts, Valais (TLH), Switzerland
2018 | Exchanging Heat, Altes Dampfbad, Baden-Baden, Germany
2016 | State of Hope, Kunsthalle Arbon, Switzerland
2016 | Voyages atmosphériques – Concerning the Blueness of the Sky, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
2015 | In Direction of Rotation. Economy and Art, Kunstmuseum Olten, Switzerland
2013 | Schwache Ölspuren im Sandstein – Days of an Elapsed Future, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland
2011 | Spaghetti Junctions, Cubitt Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2011 | United Alternative Energies, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark
2008 | L‘Energia siamo noi – Studio Frauenfeld, Shedhalle Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, Switzerland
2007 | A Curiosity, a Museum Piece and an Example of a Road Not Taken, Contemporary Art Centre Friart, Fribourg, Switzerland
2006 | At this Place, on 27 April 2006, Postpetrolism was Heralded, Kunsthof Zurich, Switzerland
2005 | Night Folding, K3 Project Space, Zurich, Switzerland

Group exhibitions (selection)
2022 | Homosphere, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany
2021 | Art as Connection, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland
2021 | Overview Effect, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia
2021 | Sharity – Share, Exchange, Do Without, Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
2020 | Renewable Media, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
2019 | Caravan, Kunsthalle Memmingen, Germany
2018 | Groentopia, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium
2017 | 4.543 Billion. The Matter of Matter, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France
2015 | Invent the Future with Elements of the Past, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
2015 | History in Stories, Helmhaus Zurich, Switzerland
2014 | Currents, Curtains, Code, Wallis Triennale, Belle Usine, Fully, Switzerland
2013 | 0 Perfomance – The Fragile Beauty of Crisis, Special Project for the 5th Moscow Biennale, Russia
2012 | The Black Whale, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain
2012 | Track – A Contemporary City Conversation, S.M.A.K. Ghent, Belgium
2011 | Live Wire. Art and Electricity, Shedhalle Zurich, Switzerland
2011 | Think Art – Act Science, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
2011 | Territoires, 11th Sculpture Triennale Bex & Arts, Bex, Switzerland
2010 | Portscapes, Museum Boijmans Van Beunigen, Rotterdam, Holland
2008-09 | The Other, 11th International Kairo-Bienale, Egypt
2008-09 | Moral Imagination, Kunstmuseum Kanton Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen and Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Switzerland/Germany
2007-09 | Ecomedia, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg; Plug-in, Basel; Sala Parpalló, Valencia, Germany/Switzerland/Spain
2005 | Let Us Share the Concept of Human Powered Art Platforms, Coleman Project Space, London, United Kingdom
2003-05 | -or-o7o, series of independent art events, Zurich, Switzerland

Film
2010 | A Road not Taken, documentary essay, 66 min., SAN 0000-0002-5973-0000-A-0000-0000-7

Artists’ books
2022 | Concerning the Human-Made Sky, 34 pages, German/English, Stans: Nidwaldner Museum, ISBN 978-3-9525079-6-4
2013 | A Chronology of Energy- and Art-Related Developments (2013, ongoing), 182 pages, English, Lucerne: Edizioni Periferia, ISBN 978-3-906016-24-5
2011 | A Road not Taken, DVD/Booklet, 64 pages, English, Zurich: Eigenverlag, ISBN 978-3-033-02868-5
2011 | United alternative Energies, 28 pages, English/Danish, Aarhus: Kunstbygning, ISBN 978-87-92025-19-7
2009 | The Rocket for the Rest of Us, 96 pages, German, Zurich: Eigenverlag
2008 | Sun of 1913, 64 pages, English/Arabic, Bern: Bundesamt für Kultur, ISBN 978-3-9523148-6-9

Publications (selection)
2022 | Art as connection, Katharina Ammann et al., Aarau: Kunsthaus Aarau
2015 | Invent the Future With Elements of the Past, Adrian Notz and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess
2014 | Triennale d’art contemporain Valais, Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser, Raffael Dörig, Helen Hirsch, Barnaby Drabble et al., Sulgen: Benteli
2013 | D.A.: A Transdisciplinary Handbook of Design Anthropology, Yana Milev, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang
2013 | Mind the Gap – Kunsthof Zürich: Materialien und Dokumente, 1993-2013, Daniel Kurjaković, Christoph Schenker et al., Zurich: Edition Fink
2012 | Track: A Contemporary City Conversation, Philippe van Cauteren and Mirjam Varadinis, Amsterdam: Roma Publications
2012 | Subverting Disambiguities, Anke Hoffmann and Yvonne Volkart, Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst
2011 | Territoires, Noémie Enz, Pascal Häusermann, and Jessica Schupbach, Lausanne: Art & fiction
2009 | Portscapes, Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna (Latitudes), Rotterdam: Port of Rotterdam Authority and SKOR
2008 | Moral Imagination, Dorothee Messmer, Raimar Stange, and Harald Welzer, Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst
2007 | Ecomedia: Ecological Strategies in Today’s Art, Sabine Himmelsbach and Yvonne Volkart, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag
2007 | Day after Day: Fri-Art 2003-2007, Sarah Zürcher et al., Fribourg: Kunsthalle Fribourg
2007 | The Whole Truth, Max Andrews, Frieze London, no. 108

Collections (selection)
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Art Collection of the City of Zurich, Switzerland
CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
Kunstmuseum Olten, Switzerland
Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Art Collection of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Federal Art Collection, Switzerland
Art Museum of Kanton Thurgau, Switzerland

Art and construction
2021 | Housing estate Zwischenbächen, Zurich, Switzerland
2020 | Housing estate Obsthaldenstrasse, Zurich, Switzerland